2020 has been one strange year. We are currently in a pandemic, the United States has elected a new president, and we witnessed people in America fight alongside the Black Lives Matter movement. Black Live Matter has become a global movement against racism and police brutality. Thousands of people from multiple different countries gathered to protest racism and police brutality after the killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police. The Black Lives Matter movement began to rise in July of 2013, 17 months after the death of Trayvon Martin. However, the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter did not become nationally recognized until 2014, when Michael Brown died by police hands. This … [Read more...] about Opinion: Reflecting on 2020 as a year of change
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CSUSB’s Master Plan in the works
By Marion Gil |Staff Writer| CSUSB’s Master Plan was the topic of a forum held at the SMSU Events Center on Thursday, June 4. The first meeting was held from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and the second meeting was held from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Details of the Master Plan were presented by representatives of RTKL and Assembladge+, architecture, and designing firms. The first half of the presentation involved a presentation on the goals and purpose behind the Master Plan, presented by Richard Thompson of Assembledge+, who has led the master plans of six different CSU campuses over the years. The Master Plan was designed with CSUSB’s goals and mission in mind, with the biggest plans … [Read more...] about CSUSB’s Master Plan in the works